As his inferior flame The new enlighten'd world no more should need; [bear. Than his bright throne, or burning axletree could VIII. The shepherds on the lawn, Or e'er the point of dawn, Sat simply chatting in a rustic row; That the mighty Pan Ch Was kindly come to live with them below; 85 90 Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. IX. When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet, As never was by mortal finger strook, Answering the stringed noises. 95 Music 18 Comes 22) As all their souls in blissful rapture took : The air such pleasure loath to lose, [close. With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly X. Nature that heard such sound, Beneath the hollow round Pan] Spenser's July. The flockes of mightie Pan.' Warton Heaven awakend all his age. To see another sun at midnight Fil Par II, 2 and he abd: "the cursed cracks word strucks. Art 119 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Of Cynthia's seat, the airy region thrilling, To think her part was done, 169 105 And that her reign had here its last fulfilling; Could hold all heav'n and earth in happier union. XI. At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, "it used only 3 times by Milton; here & in Car. Lost I 254 & II 813 110 That with long beams the shamefac'd night ar The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, [ray'd; Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd, [Heir. With unexpressive notes to Heaven's new-born XII. Such music (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanc'd world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, 120 [keep. And bid the welt'ring waves their oozy channel 116 unexpressive] This word was, perhaps, coined by Shakespeare. As you like it, act iii. sc. 2, The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she !' Warton Not quite correct together ball the sons And let the base of heav'n's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th' angelic symphony. For if such holy song Inwrap our fancy long, XIV. 131 Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 110 125 crystal] 'Heaven's hard crystal.' Marlowe's Hero and Leander, p. 90. 128 silver] Machin's Dumbe Knight, 1608. 'It was as silver as the chime of spheres.' Todd. 134 gald] of gold.' Benlowes's Theophila, st. xcv. p. 248. 140 leave] Virg. Æn. viii. 245. 'See listening Time run back to fetch the age regna recludat Pallida, dîs invisa; superque immane barathrum Warton. XV Yea Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between, Thron'd in celestial sheen, 145 With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steer And heav'n, as at some festival, [ing: Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall. XVI. But wisest Fate says No, This must not yet be so, The babe yet lies in smiling infancy, Must redeem our loss; So both himself and us to glorify; 150 Yet first to those ychain'd in sleep, [the deep; The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through "A live opgreat eneye dejant sublime warten XVII. The enamelled Av.00 of the Rainbow wearing 160 Kev X X 20 XIX Shall from the surface to the centre shake; When at the world's last session, [throne. The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his XVIII. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, The oracles are dumb, XIX. No voice or hideous hum 165 170 Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, 172 Swinges] See Cowley's Davideis, p. 313 Hutary && K., Not to Shepherd Calendar (Conny braces) |